[QUOTE=BCT]asdf and scum are you using fabric paint[/QUOTE]
I am.

[QUOTE=BCT]asdf and scum are you using fabric paint[/QUOTE]
White and black are; not the red.

asdf that shirt is so good. i am amazed by it. i need to master the art of using fabric paint and making **** on black shirts.

i got my wisdom teeth and some other secret teeth out a couple of days ago so ive been ****ed up on painkillers so i havent been doing anything. im going to make some strike anywhere stencils for my backpack for school first. then i have a sean connery 007 stencil i need to make. i also am planning on making an aganst me shirt but i dont know what im going to do with that yet.

[url]http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g199/iam2000pounds/?action=view&current=jkghhjg.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1[/url]

That's a stencil I made for Against Me! I haven't used it yet though.

I dont know if I've posted about this yet, I probably did a while ago.

This is my dads old road bike from years upon years ago. It's been sitting in the rain for about four years so I decided to fix it up.

[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/2.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/3.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/4.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/1.jpg[/url]

It's all pretty much finished now. I just need to get some new photos of it. I've re-taped up the handle bars, replaced the tubes and tires, patched up some old tubes, got rid of the leather strappings on the pedals, slowly worked on getting rid of all the rust, adjusted the brakes, removed the drink holder and added a light on the back for riding at night.


EDIT: here's a crappy camera phone picture.
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/bike.jpg[/url]

Nice man, I'm sure that thing kicks ***. :)

do you guys use spray fabric paint or a roller? that spray **** does not work well i think i might try it agian. i am thinking about making a silk screen soon. has any one else done that?

[QUOTE=BCT]do you guys use spray fabric paint or a roller? that spray **** does not work well i think i might try it agian. i am thinking about making a silk screen soon. has any one else done that?[/QUOTE]
I use a brush. Roller works just as well. According to my friend, that spray stuff is ****, I really wouldn't even bother with it.

i have never even considered a brush those little foam brush might work well. i am goint to start so many diy projects when i move in to my own apparment on the 16th

[QUOTE=plebeian scum]yeah, I'll figure out the *** patch later.

Here are some patches I've made in recent days:


[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches002.jpg[/url] - World/Inferno
[/QUOTE]

Your World/Inferno patch is amazing. I'd make one if I had the slightest clue how.

i dont have one clue on how to make a shirt...

no idea how you guys are doing this...

but can i just make a stencil, and put it over a white shirt, and use black spraypaint, and spray over the stencil?

Yeah, Jono, that would work fine, but it'd give a different feel than fabric paint. Whenever I paint shirts, (which, granted, aren't very punx,) I use a brush set and So Soft Fabric Paints. I have made two with spraypaint, and they look pretty rocking, but they don't look store bought. The best part about it is how nicely they fade.

A few tips for doing that, though: make sure that it's a preshrunk t-shirt, and put something between the layers of the shirt so it doesn't bleed. I do most of my painting with my shirts stretched out over my guitar case, which works effectively and bleeds through hella cool-like. My guitar case looks all dope and psychedelic.

haha niiice

i dont want to make them look store bought anyways
i like homemade stuff haha

what guitar do you have, i have a gibson sg special faded, and im getting a white and black epiphone sg, this week, for 200$

I had a black and white Epiphone SG, but recently a pipe broke in my house and soaked the pickups. Actually, it soaked just about everything, caused 40,000 dollars in structural damages, and got us evicted because we couldn't pay for it.

But whatever. Life goes on.

I use my acoustic guitar case neck to paint things with. it fills the shirts out really well, because I'm a small and the fit is perfect. My acoustic guitar is an Ibanez purchased from my brother's ex-girlfriend for twenty bucks. Best buy of my life.

damn, sucks about your house, and your guitar, was the epiphone a G-310, cuz thats what im getting, looks sooo sweet.

yeah, i wont be painting, i cant do that yet hah, just spraypaiting.
ill make my own stencils out of cardboard, and then just spraypaint over that wtih a white shirt. That will work well, im guessing.

[QUOTE=Jono9119X]i dont have one clue on how to make a shirt...

no idea how you guys are doing this...

but can i just make a stencil, and put it over a white shirt, and use black spraypaint, and spray over the stencil?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/print_stencil.html[/url] - though that's a bit more involved than spraypaint.

[QUOTE=Microwave meals & ideals]Your World/Inferno patch is amazing. I'd make one if I had the slightest clue how.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/world_inferno.gif[/url]

Stencilpunks is where it's at.

Oh, yeah, this sounds dumb, but what kind of places sell safty pins? They're tacky as hell (and I'm not one of those people that think they look cool), but I'm too lazy to sew, especially if it might just be temporary. I'd like to aviod the big discount stores also.

HOT TOPIC!!!!!! lol

[QUOTE=plebeian scum][url]http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/print_stencil.html[/url] - though that's a bit more involved than spraypaint.


[url]http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/world_inferno.gif[/url]

Stencilpunks is where it's at.

Oh, yeah, this sounds dumb, but what kind of places sell safty pins? They're tacky as hell (and I'm not one of those people that think they look cool), but I'm too lazy to sew, especially if it might just be temporary. I'd like to aviod the big discount stores also.[/QUOTE]basically any arts & crafts store. try joann's or michaels.

Any drug store will have safety pins.

I made another shirt today. This one is a streetlight manifesto shirt, and I messed it up a few different ways, but it still looks passable.

[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/Stencils/streetlight.jpg[/url]

Looks really good. What'd you mess up on?

Nice work asdf.

[QUOTE=Skrunnch]Looks really good. What'd you mess up on?[/QUOTE]
I didn't center it on the shirt, and I didn't center some of the layers correctly. I know it's something that'll only bother me. I can't care too much anyway, because I'm wearing it right now so I'm inhaling lots of paint fumes.

i dont think ive ever centered anything on any of my shirts. i look at it and just place stuff what looks good. im normally off a few inches to low.

the hardest thing i actully tried centering was the joe strummer shirt a while back, but the entire image was still inces below where it whould have been.

i usually center whatever im doing good but whenever i do a layered stencil i always **** up on lining up the layers correctly.
asdf that shirt is good as **** youre owning everyone in the shirt department id say.
im making a strike anywhere backpack today well see how that goes.

bct designed a 8 or 9 layer stencil of david hasselhoff holding a rocket launcher from halo. its so funny. hes supposedly moving today and i think hes going to spray it on his wall in his new place whenever he cuts it.

I just figured out a new way to design stencil in photoshop. They come out sick but i have not sprayed one i did like that yet. The david hasselhoff one is like that and so is an ODB one i just started to cut it is starting to hurt my hand form cutting to much **** so i am taking a break for a while. I cut 2 of 6 layers of the odb one already the david hasselhoff is 8 for hasselhoff and 3 for the rocket launcher it is going to suck to cut. Jodan will you take pics of the elphants on the box and the shirt i made for nick and put them on your photobucket.

This thread is dead!

hey asdf, you have experience with tie dying right?

I want to dye a pair of jeans (they're a little dark blue) to just black, and I know a store near me has RIT dye. Can you reccomend me a technique to use to get the most of dye, so I dont waste a pair of jeans or a packet of dye? The jeans are made of 55% Ramie, 45% Cotton and 5% spandex (if that helps!)

[QUOTE=Splinter364]This thread is dead!

hey asdf, you have experience with tie dying right?

I want to dye a pair of jeans (they're a little dark blue) to just black, and I know a store near me has RIT dye. Can you reccomend me a technique to use to get the most of dye, so I dont waste a pair of jeans or a packet of dye? The jeans are made of 55% Ramie, 45% Cotton and 5% spandex (if that helps!)[/QUOTE]
I'll tell you right now: RIT dye sucks. For what you're doing, it would probably not be good at all. Have you ever seen someone with a tie-dyed shirt where the colors just looked extremely faded? That's because it's RIT. The colors are not vibrant and they don't stay well.

There's also the problem with your jeams only being 45% cotton. I don't know how RIT reacts to non-cotton fabrics, but the dye I use does not work well, at would probably rinse right out.

So sorry to tell you, but I think you'll have to try something else.

[QUOTE=asdf]I'll tell you right now: RIT dye sucks. For what you're doing, it would probably not be good at all. Have you ever seen someone with a tie-dyed shirt where the colors just looked extremely faded? That's because it's RIT. The colors are not vibrant and they don't stay well.

There's also the problem with your jeams only being 45% cotton. I don't know how RIT reacts to non-cotton fabrics, but the dye I use does not work well, at would probably rinse right out.

So sorry to tell you, but I think you'll have to try something else.[/QUOTE]

aw okay. Thanks alot for replying so fast!

Rather than cop-ping out and buying a loft for college, I built one. Today is my second full day, so I'll have to take pictures of it here in a little while. It is pretty sweet, I think you guys would like it.

VA tech, i assume?

[QUOTE=ibanezman575]VA tech, i assume?[/QUOTE]

:thumb:

I'm so blown away, and nothing has really started yet. :)

Hey whats up?
so any ways... Ive been using transparencys to make stencils but they keep falling apart. What are other ways to make a stencil?

[QUOTE=ImAnIdiot]Hey whats up?
so any ways... Ive been using transparencys to make stencils but they keep falling apart. What are other ways to make a stencil?[/QUOTE]

manila folders, cardboard, contact paper, the list goes on. I typically use the contact paper, because it has a sticky side that will keep the image from shifting. The only bummer is if you have any minute details, ripping the actual overlayed area off will tear the stencil, so it won't be much more efficient in long term use. :/

what the hell is a manila folder?

[url]http://ask.yahoo.com/20031110.html[/url]

Dear Yahoo!:
Why is the "manila folder" called "manila"?
John
Montezuma, Georgia
Dear John:
The ubiquitous and sturdy office folders owe their name to manila hemp or abaca, a type of fiber that comes from a relative of the banana plant. Commonly used for ropes, paper products, and coarse fabrics, manila hemp is indigenous to the Philippines and gets its name from the country's capital.

Abaca was first introduced in the West in the early 1800s and was primarily used for cordage. Until stronger synthetic fibers were invented, abaca was the primary source for marine ropes because of its strength, water-resistant properties, and lightness.

Today, those same qualities make it the perfect ingredient for durable paper products like currency notes, high-quality writing paper, and of course, the stack of folders sitting on your desk.

[url]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/6c/Manila-folder.jpg[/url]

so how do i make that into a sencil? do i print out the design and put the page over it then cut it out, or what?

tear one side of the folder off, and either shove it in the printer to get what you want, or draw it on there yourself. Then take an exactoknife or razor and cut what you want to out. Then just tape it to a shirt or bag or whatever you want to stencil, and paint over the folder.

wouldnt the folder get soggy with the paint? I m looking for ways to make a LASTING stencil.

[QUOTE=ImAnIdiot]wouldnt the folder get soggy with the paint? I m looking for ways to make a LASTING stencil.[/QUOTE]
I genenerally use posterboard-like material, and I've used them more than once. Sometimes the get a little bit out of shape, but just crush them under something heavy for awhile, and they should be good again.